Since its birth, the BRICS mechanism has never expanded its membership except to absorb South Africa as a member in 2010, but now the situation is changing.

Since its birth, the BRICS National Mechanism has never expanded its membership except to absorb South Africa as a member in 2010, but now the situation is changing. According to the Global Network html on the 221st, Tavares, Ambassador of Indonesia to Russia, said recently that he believes that the BRICS mechanism has many advantages, so the country is planning to join and hopes to benefit from it.

However, Tavarez also admitted that Jakarta is still discussing this matter. After carefully weighing the pros and cons, he will formally submit an application for "joining the group".

In fact, just a few days ago, when the Saudi crown prince and the president of South Africa met, he also expressed his willingness to join the BRICS country to the latter. Afterwards, Wang Wenbin, spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of my country, had 20 A response was made at a press conference on Sunday, expressing support and welcome to Saudi Arabia's decision to "enter the group".

In a short period of time, the two countries successively released signals that they hope to join the BRICS, which is enough to prove the strong attraction of the BRICS countries. From an economic perspective, the BRICS members have a vast land area, a large population, and have great development potential. If they become one of them, the benefits will definitely outweigh the disadvantages.

On the other hand, they actively expressed their opinions or Perhaps there are some political considerations, because the above two countries have not had a very harmonious relationship with the United States recently, especially Saudi Arabia, which has almost had a stumble with Washington .

In order to deal with the problem of falling oil prices caused by the Federal Reserve's interest rate hike, OPEC+ members represented by Saudi Arabia decided to collectively cut production to stabilize energy prices. This move made the Biden administration very angry, believed that it was humiliated, and was considering imposing a series of sanctions on Saudi Arabia, and re-evaluating it. Estimate the relationship between the two countries.

In fact, the United States has been putting pressure on Saudi Arabia for this period, hoping that the country can increase oil supply. Biden personally went to Saudi Arabia for this reason. As a result, Saudi Arabia not only did not increase production but reduced production. This move will make it more difficult for the United States to solve the problem of inflation , so it is conceivable how dissatisfied Washington is.

and for Saudi Arabia Especially, since it has offended the United States, it must find a new ally for itself internationally. The BRICS countries are undoubtedly the most suitable choice.

As for Indonesia, the country is the venue of this year's G20 summit. After the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, Western countries tried to exclude Russia from the G20 meeting, and even wanted to get it in place in one step and remove Moscow from the G20 organization directly. However, it was firmly opposed by Indonesia, and Indonesia has repeatedly criticized Western countries for oppression on Asia on international occasions.

So from this point of view, as an developing country that opposes the US hegemony, it is not surprising that Indonesia hopes to join the BRICS. Although Cold War has ended for decades, the United States and other Western countries still pursue Cold War thinking , and often forces other countries to take sides, or form small groups to engage in zero-sum game .

On the other hand, the BRICS countries have always advocated the openness and inclusiveness of and the spirit of win-win cooperation. It is clear at a glance who is more in line with the development of the times and who represents the advanced direction. In other words, Saudi Arabia and Indonesia have made the right choice.

It is worth mentioning that Indonesia is the largest country in ASEAN . If it successfully "joined", it represents not only itself, but also the behind-the-scenes ASEAN, which happens to be the largest trading partners of ASEAN and China, then the relationship between the two sides is expected to be further improved.

Similarly, Saudi Arabia is the leader of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, and Russia itself is one of the members of OPEC+. Saudi Arabia's joining can be said to be a cooperation between the BRICS and OPEC+. Once the two are united, it will be enough to leverage the hegemony of the US dollar based on energy trade.

At present, Whether the two countries can eventually succeed in "joining the group" depends on the discussion and decision of next year's BRICS Summit . However, from the current situation, there should be no big obstacles. First of all, Indonesia and Saudi Arabia do not have direct conflicts with all BRICS members.

Secondly, at the BRICS Summit in June this year, the leaders of the five countries have reached a consensus on the issue of membership expansion.So, I believe that in the near future, more and more countries will apply to join the BRICS and gradually become an important force that can check and balance the Western hegemony.